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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 782 Filed 01/15/25 Page 78 of 158 78 LBAAMAX3ps Rocchio - Direct describing the same kinds of strategies and tactics as grooming refers to, happens in a variety of other settings. So in the pimp-and-sex-worker relationship, we know, for example, that the grooming strategies are happening, and typically a pimp is working not for their own, necessarily, sexual gratification but to provide -- to procure and provide for the sexual gratification of another, for example. THE COURT: And that's how it's discussed in the field and in the literature, that, to the extent that trauma bonding has been studied in the pimp-sex worker context, it is plainly about, at least largely about, the coercive techniques being used to facilitate sexual conduct with a third party. THE WITNESS: Exactly. THE COURT: And, again, nothing like that in the grooming child sexual abuse context beyond sort of the institutional authority positions that you've discussed. THE WITNESS: There have been studies, though, that have looked at specifically comparing the behaviors associated with grooming for the purposes of sexual abuse and those being the same behaviors, techniques, and strategies as utilized by the pimps. So to the extent that what we're talking about are groups of behaviors, they're the same behaviors, so they're being -- you're describing behavior that doesn't depend on whose sexual gratification the behaviors are being done in service of. You're talking about principles of coercion and SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 DOJ-OGR-00014954